Buckminster Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1987. Country house. 2 related planning applications.

Buckminster Hall

WRENN ID
dusk-spandrel-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Kesteven
Constituency
Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1987
Type
Country house
Address
Buckminster Hall, High Street, Billingborough
OS grid reference
TF 117 340
Coordinates
52.89225, -0.34018
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Buckminster Hall is a small country house built in 1669 and later remodeled in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The structure features coursed limestone rubble, limestone ashlar, and red brick, topped with a slate roof that has a stone-coped north gable and ashlar gable stacks. The double ridge hipped slate roofs of the 19th-century addition to the north have decorated eaves and a single brick lateral stack.

The original 17th-century range to the south has two storeys and an attic, with a four-bay front. On the right side, there is a doorway with a projecting ashlar doorcase that has moulded eaves and a triangular-headed doorway with a moulded keystone, leading to an interior glazed door with glazing bars. To the right, there is a central brick bay window featuring three narrow ashlar-dressed plain sashes, while to the left is a two-light ashlar-dressed window with narrow plain sashes. Beyond this is a canted brick bay window with three narrow ashlar-dressed plain sashes. Above, there are four plain sashes and a moulded parapet, along with three dormer windows that have off-centre flat-headed 19th-century glazing bar sashes flanked by single five-light 20th-century casements. A chimney on the building is inscribed with "BTA DNI ANO 1669."

To the north, there is a two-storey, three-bay 19th-century brick addition that features a canted ashlar-dressed bay window on the right, which has a central pair of glazed doors flanked by single narrow plain sashes, alternating with pilasters that have ornate capitals. To the left, there are two ashlar-dressed plain sashes with raised keystones, and to the right, a tripartite plain sash with an ashlar surround and raised keystone is present, along with two more ashlar-dressed plain sashes to the left, also with raised keystones. The interior is noted to be of no particular interest.

Local climate

Buckminster Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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